Re: State of Drag & Drop on Windows...

[Fred Kiefer]

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> > What is the state of Drag & Drop on Windows?  Last time I tried to use it
> > it
> > didn't work.   As you can imagine, not having D&D is a big blocker to
> > getting
> > many applications, especially Gorm, working on Windows.
>
>
> There has been a patch for drag and drop on windows, which I did transform
> into a general D&D implementation that should work on all systems. But there
> is still one change that is needed for all backends to support it (A
> findWindowBelow:ignoringWindow: method), which I did not find the time to
> implement properly. Give me another week and it should be there. Sorry, that
> this is too late for the current release, but I have been traveling for most
> of the weekends this year, which leaves only limited time for GNUstep.
>
> The next step for Windows would than be an extension to work together with
> the native pasteboard (which also does D&D). I remember a patch for this as
> well, but it used C++.

The generic Drag and Drop on Windows is now working, what is still 
missing is the interaction with the standard D&D on this platform. I 
have attached an implmentation for this from Leigh Smith, perhaps 
somebody wants to evolve this into a complete solution?

For Gorm to work on Windows there is still a bit more missing. First of 
all, it should be possible to compile it there. Looks like the GormLib 
is not speciified as an additional library, so it is not used when 
linking Gorm, which than fails on Windows.

Fred

PS: How is the NIB loading progressing?

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